Gain of Function
$36.51
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2025
Summary
How a small number of risky experiments creates many unwieldy problems for life science research.
The life sciences have never been more critical to human health, wealth, and security. But with any endeavor comes risk, and the last decade has seen concerns raised about gain-of function-research in which a microbe, usually a virus, is given new properties like enhanced lethality, transmissibility, or the capability to infect new species. In 2021 the term seeped into the tabloids when a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551359 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262551357 |
| Author: | Nicholas G. Evans |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series |
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About The Author
Nicholas G. Evans
Nicholas G. Evans is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of War on All Fronts- A Theory of Health Security Justice.
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